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ELDERBERRY BUSH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

Synonyms:

elder; elderberry bush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("elderberry bush" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elderberry bush"):

American elder; black elderberry; Sambucus canadensis; sweet elder (common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies)

blue elder; blue elderberry; Sambucus caerulea (shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jellies)

danewort; dwarf elder; Sambucus ebulus (dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor)

black elder; bourtree; common elder; elderberry; European elder; Sambucus nigra (a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies)

American red elder; red-berried elder; Sambucus pubens; stinking elder (common North American shrub or small tree)

European red elder; red-berried elder; Sambucus racemosa (Eurasian shrub)

Holonyms ("elderberry bush" is a member of...):

genus Sambucus; Sambucus (elder; elderberry)

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